Sunday, 23 June 2013

I have a girl crush on Elisalex, the pattern not the person, never met the person, although I would probably have a crush on her too if I did, she looks hot on her blog...any how's

The pattern is pretty, the instructions are cute, the results make me feel damned sexy, even though I mainly just wear them to the market.....grrrr....

Again, the shoulder is very droopy, how have I got by for so many years not knowing of the droopy shoulder?

Anyway the skirt you may note is not the original skirt, half circle was done by some other bloggers, my lurking lead me to think that the half circle would be best on the drapey fabric. The bodice fit straight out of the box, I cut the 16 for the busters and graded it to a 12 at the waist (maybe I went to far looking at the wrinkles in the pictures, it feels snug, but in a good way, like it is holding all the stuff in nice and tight.)

Can we talk about the fabric? The turquoise is ponte from truro fabrics, it is great, no bobbles and I do wear and wash it often, and the colour is perfect, no? Service is great there too I use their lining which seems good if a bit pricey.

......and then there was the liberty fabric....the story goes something like....hmm I have a sewing machine, wouldn't it be nice if I made some Christmas pressies for my nearest and dearest, liberty scarves and ties from the purl bees blog www.purlbee.com (yes I am a lurker, I did say I think). then step 2 was the purchase of liberty fabric, in stepped (CLICK AT YOUR WALLETS PERIL)www.shaukat.co.uk and maybe a couple of extra meters of Denise Eva made it accidentally into the shopping basket. oops I thought when she arrived, maybe I should send her back. what? they don't do returns once cut? I have to use her all selfishly? in a selfish half circle Elisalex? sometimes life conspires against me I swear.

Behold the Party Frock!! check out her drape. check our her tiny curvaceous waist. check out her winter floral on trend (I live in Yorkshire it is still winter till August). Crush!

I love lurking on other people's blogs.....so much so that I decided to start my own!

I have been learning to sew for the past year, I do a millinery class at leeds college of art and try to sew a little bit every day with my sewing machine, not always well, not always stress relieving, but quite compelling.

A whistle stop tour of the process so far would be cushions, mainly because I thought I could only sew in a straight line. The cat quite likes them.....

Then I progressed to the Peony from collette, which was a mistake for someone who could only sew straight lines and didn't know what a full bust adjustment was never mind how to execute one....the 2 trial efforts were each worn once (i have to wear even horrible things once, if only to reming myself not to do it again) and then went to the big oxfam in the sky. Hence no pictures, and you wouldn't have wanted to see....
I do love the pattern though and will revisit now I have a pattern master ruler and a concept of how to fit the paper pattern to the busters....

Then came burda 9/12 shift dress....confidence restored! Love it and wear the cord one often, the silk one not so much because it is fancy......I like fancy .... I once knew a mule called Fancy, maybe a story for another day.